Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

A few secure, random bytes without `pgcrypto`

Avoiding the pgcrypto extension and its OpenSSL dependency by generating cryptographically secure randomness through gen_random_uuid().

Direnv's `source_env`, and how to manage project configuration

How I accidentally stumbled across the source_env directive and dramatically improved my configuration methodology overnight.

Your Go version CI matrix might be wrong

As of Go 1.21, Go fetches toolchains automatically, and it’s easy to not be running the version that you thought you were running.

Elden Ring

I broke my promise never to give FromSoftware money again, and it was okay.

Sqlc: 2024 check in

Quick thoughts on whether sqlc is still the direction for Go projects now that we’ve been using it for three years.